r/hackintosh • u/Olive-Zealousideal • 2d ago

SUCCESS Sequoia Success after 9 years break

After I took 9 years break from hackintoshing in general I diceded to try it again. (I am going to admit a lot has changed and I was a bit rusty).

What works:
- basically everything
- sleep
- iCloud services, iMessage

Broken:
- WiFi ? (I mean bluetooth works, airdrop works, all handoffs works, wifi does see all the networks around me but for the love of god it refuses to connect to any of them - wifi extension exited error) I think this must be a related hardware issue as the same happens in windows for whatever reason.. Thats what i get for trying to save myself few weeks of shipping and ordering from a random local guy..

PC specs:
Intel Core i5 14400F
Chipset: B760M
AsRock RX6600
WiFi: BCM943602

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u/themacmeister1967 2d ago

bcm943602 is fixed on Sequoia...

Search for Broadcom Sequoia... you need to inject a kext at startup (SkyWalker?) and force stop another from loading. This is super-easy, and you can set it only to load the Broadcom fix and kexts only on certain minimum kernel versions (allowing multi-boot between versions of macOS).

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u/themacmeister1967 2d ago

I can't find the exact guide I used before, but here is a YouTube video that covers the same territory.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cHWe39bNt-A

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u/Olive-Zealousideal 2d ago

It just seams to me like the authentication process is failing for whathever reason every time. But I have no clue why.

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u/themacmeister1967 2d ago

If you have a 2.4GHz receiver (XBox360/Keyboard/Mouse/dongle) near your antennae, it may interfere severely with WiFi.

I used to plug my Unifying Receiver from Logitech into FRONT USB ports to avoid severe interference. Have not had issues with BT/WiFi since doing this.

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u/Olive-Zealousideal 2d ago

I dont have anything like that near me. Either way. All of a sudden i am able to connect to my own hotspot from iphone but still no luck with other APs. I think it just cant process a network with password protection.

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u/themacmeister1967 2d ago

I am using WPA2-PSK for network authentication... no issues.

Doesn't work on Mixed WPA2/PSK

I also changed from the default password (which was 16 alphanumeric characters, uppercase and lowercase) to an 8 Character password - all caps with one digit.